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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he see in his imagination?
(a) A gate with a bell hanging above it
(b) Sorns creeping up on him in the bushes
(c) Another Ransom wandering the forest
(d) His home on earth

2. When Ransom looks around after landing he notices the ship is sitting on:
(a) in the middle of a busy city
(b) in a meadow of wild flowers
(c) the top of a mountain
(d) a penisula or island surrounded by blue water

3. After Devine questions Ransom, what does he learn?
(a) Ransom plans to retire and write a book on Swahili
(b) Ransom is on a walking tour, of which no one knows
(c) Ransom lives down the street from the Rise
(d) Ransom quit his job at Cambridge

4. What happens to the center of gravity on the ship as they near the planet?
(a) It turns off
(b) It becomes haywire moving all over the ship
(c) It shifts from the center to the side closest to the planet
(d) Nothing happens to it

5. What does Ransom hear as he runs through the forest?
(a) Birds singing in the trees
(b) Gunshots and some voices yelling
(c) Fast, thudding steps behind him
(d) A strange snapping noise he can't place

6. What do the creatures do?
(a) Bare their teeth and growl
(b) They show Weston and Devine through a door in the wall
(c) Begin singing and dancing
(d) Jump up and down trying to reach the men

7. When Weston confirms that Ransom is on a spaceship, Ransom is overcome with:
(a) elation
(b) fear
(c) anger
(d) forboding

8. How does Devine control Ransom when they leave the ship?
(a) Threatens to leave him there with no hope of returning to earth
(b) Drugs him so that he is able to walk but only slowly
(c) He holds a revolver on him
(d) Handcuffs him

9. What position does Ransom take on the ship?
(a) Cook
(b) Navigator
(c) Morale officer
(d) Weapons officer

10. What is all over the ground on the planet?
(a) Black moss
(b) A pinkish foliage
(c) Red and gold leaves
(d) Green slime

11. What does Ransom contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) If Harry's mother will report him missing
(b) The nature of his fear and confronting the unknown
(c) The amazement of landing on another planet
(d) Whether summer has started on earth

12. What does Ransom do with his watch?
(a) He sets the correct time
(b) Nothing, he doesn't have a watch
(c) He winds it because it has stopped
(d) He takes it off and puts it in his pocket

13. The character in question #1 meets a woman who is searching for her simple-minded son, whose name is:
(a) George
(b) Jimbo
(c) Harry
(d) John

14. What is an eldil?
(a) A group of hross who live together, like a tribe
(b) A plant which is the main diet stable of the hross
(c) A child of the hross born with psychic abilities
(d) A spirit like messenger of Oyarsa

15. Where does Ransom run as he's getting away?
(a) Across a field of plants that look like corn
(b) Into a forest of tall, purple plants
(c) Back to the space ship
(d) Into a large, crowded city

Short Answer Questions

1. Devine leaves Ransom supposedly to go into the kitchen to get what?

2. Rather than it being the moon that Ransom is seeing, Weston tells him that the large orb is:

3. The second man, who is an accomplice to the man in question #4 and who is a physicist.

4. When Ransom explores parts of the space ship, what does he find?

5. What is an hnakra and its relationship to the hross?

(see the answer keys)

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